Re: (TV) Re: 'Joshua' / Neglected "Around" / 'Spooky Entanglement'

[Russ <russvr@gmail.com>]

OMG! I absolutely adore "I'm gonna find you" .  I don't care if it has
every blues cliche known to man - the way they play it, it makes those
cliches sound like the first time any of them were played.


On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Tom Miller <blackmonk@msn.com> wrote:
> On 11/1/2011 10:34 PM, Leo Casey wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I gotta go with Leif and Keith on this.
>>
>> I'd give 'Joshua Fought The Battle of Jericho' a C to a C- (and an F for
>> laziness!).  I thought the guitar playing and melody wwere dull as
>> dishwater. It's as if he said: "I ain't gonna give one of my better songs
>> to
>> charity; I'll give them another stinker like I did with 'Mistakes' and
>> 'Leaves' for the Japanese Earthquake Relief cd. That nut, Richard Lloyd,
>> thinks my melodies and playing suck ... well wait until he gets a load of
>> this one!".
>>
>> The scary thing is, according to a link Claudia sent this summer, and
>> which
>> shows a photo of Television's set-list scrawled in Verlaine's handwriting,
>> Television played this song ('Jericho') either in Sao Paulo or Porto
>> Algre,
>> Brazil in July.  Maybe 'live' he re-arranged it a lot.  (As a general
>> rule,
>> I think Tom should stay as far away as possible from African Spirituals
>> (or
>> R&  B/Soul) covers; it's just not his thing/world.  When you look up the
>> definition of 'Caucasian' in the dictionary (or internet) it's got a
>> picture
>> of a young Tom with his almost pasty, pale, white skin and a gangly bag of
>> bones. I am not being racist or disrespectful; Tom is just the polar
>> opposite of black soul music and that's partially a back-handed
>> complement.)
>>
>
> There's a 74 demo on YouTube called "I'm Gonna Find You" where Television is
> attempting to do something bluesy, with pretty dire results.  Richard Lloyd
> posted that he wrote the music because he wanted to do something is 6/8 time
> (He says "6/4" but I'll assume that's just a typo), but I can't figure out
> what music was actually written or why anyone would want to take credit for
> it. It sounds as though, while he might have wanted to do something in 6/8,
> he didn't tell the rest of the group and none of them know that there is a
> time signature other than 4/4.  They all sound much more comfortable towards
> the end of the song when they've abandoned the blues and sound like the
> Velvet Underground.
>
> As for "Jericho," I thought his vocal worked a lot better than his version
> of "Fever," which does fit your description very well. Maybe that's because
> "Jericho" sounds like a traditional song as Tom Verlaine would do it and
> "Fever" sounds like Tom Verlaine trying to do a R&B record. I have no
> problem at all with the guitar playing on either.
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